Re: Singularity information [was: Paths to the Singularity]

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2000 - 18:07:08 MST


At 01:55 AM 12/02/00 -0800, Robert wrote:

>> explain what singularity is

>In *short*, it is the time when the exponential growth of technologies
>reaches the point that when you wake up in the morning, things look
>*very*, *very* different from the way they looked when you went to sleep.

Sleep? Sleep? That will have gone at least several years earlier.

(Arguably, as the slope steepens.)

Damien



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